Seagate Spider-Man Special Edition FireCuda External Hard Drive Review

Seagate has entered the Marvel universe with its latest offering, the Spider-Man Special Edition FireCuda External Hard Drive, boasting a whopping 2 TB capacity. The drive bears resemblance in design and features to its popular Disney/Star Wars Mandalorian-themed Seagate FireCuda Grogu and Beskar Ingot drives. With a focus on attracting fans and delivering exceptional performance, this gaming external drive is loaded with platter-based external hard drive technology. So, let's delve into the real-world performance of this device and see how well it performs.

Design & features

The Spider-Man drive is a portable external hard drive with a size of 0.6 by 3.2 by 4.8 inches (HWD) and a weight of only 167 grams. It is available in various spider avatars, and I got the one with a red bottom, black top and sides, and an action shot of Spidey on the top with textured web patterns.

The drive uses a USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface, with a USB Micro-B port at other end, which can be connected to a USB Type-A port on your computer using the supplied cable. At the same end, there is a status light. The drive also features an RGB light, which can be customized using the free Seagate Toolkit software.

In addition, the gaming external drive comes with a one-year warranty and provides access to Seagate's Rescue Data Recovery Services for a year. According to Seagate, the lab claims a 95% success rate for solid-state and hard-drive data recovery.

Performance

We tested the drive on our test bench bed (Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB RAM, and Windows 11 OS). In our random test in which we transferred the assorted 25 GB data (Video, PDF, Word, and other files) from our PC to the Spider-Man FireCuda drive, it took only 3 min 35 sec. While transferring the same data from the Seagate drive to PC, it took about 3 min 23 sec. On the other hand, when I transferred 1 GB of a movie to the drive, it took only 20 sec.

Running the synthetic benchmarks, to identify the key strengths and weaknesses of a drive. It performed really well on Crystal Disk Mark (sequential) and resulted in 143.45 MB/s read and 134.54 MB/s write speed.

Seagate Spider Man Special Edition FireCuda External Hard Drive Review Crystal Disk Mark

Using the AS SSD benchmark, it delivered –

Seagate Spider Man Special Edition FireCuda External Hard Drive Review AS SSD

Using the copy benchmark, it delivered –

Seagate Spider Man Special Edition FireCuda External Hard Drive Review AS SSD Copy Benchmark

ISO 36.77 MB/s speed
Program 14.69 MB/s speed
Game 22.70 MB/s speed

With HD Tune benchmark –

Seagate Spider Man Special Edition FireCuda External Hard Drive Review HD Tune

Using the ATTO Disk Benchmark, it delivered –

Seagate Spider Man Special Edition FireCuda External Hard Drive Review ATTO